JAMES REED, farmer; P. O. Blue River; land located in Secs. 11, 12 and 13; he was born in Ireland in 1829, and is the son of Andrew and Elizabeth Bower, natives of Ireland; he came to America in 1853, and located at Lake Champlain, where he remained three years; then came to Lancaster, where he engaged as farm hand to Mr. Fred Phelps, afterward coming to Waterstown; has been in his present location twelve years. He married Miss Elizabeth Zemmitzka Jan. 14, 1863. They have eight children.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.